NEW YORK — The Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg took the stand Tuesday as the star witness at the criminal tax fraud trial against Donald Trump’s family real estate business.
The convicted CFO’s testimony at Manhattan Supreme Court came after jurors heard from his deputy, company controller Jeffrey McConney, who pinned the multi-year tax fraud scam at the heart of the case to Weisselberg’s greed and corruption.
Wearing a dark gray suit and a sky blue tie, an uncomfortable-looking Weisselberg told jurors he started working for the former president’s family nearly half-century ago in 1973, when he was hired by his father, Fred Trump, to do accounting work for his Brooklyn-based real estate business.
